Discovery of an antibody capable of blocking the development of metastases
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Cancer and metastases: doing aerobic exercises reduces the risk
© Shutterstock / Nejron PhotoPrevious studies having shown that the practice of sport helps to avoid the risk of recurrence ...
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Lung cancer: eating red peppers can slow the development of the disease
Capsaicin, the substance that irritates and burns the stomach when eating red pepper, could help fight metastases better.Consume very hot ...
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Cancer: eating peanuts increases the risk of spreading
Cancer patients should avoid eating peanuts in large quantities as they are suspected of promoting the spread of metastases in ...
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Cancer: an AI can identify the origin of metastases
Researchers have just developed an artificial intelligence capable of finding the origin of metastatic tumors while generating a "differential diagnosis" ...
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Cancer: the membrane that surrounds tumours, a key to avoiding metastases?
Tumors are surrounded by a membrane: to establish themselves in other parts of the body, and thus become metastases, cancerous ...
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Red ginseng would help counter lung cancer metastases
Used for hundreds of years by traditional Korean medicine, red ginseng would be able to fight against lung cancer metastases.Used ...
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Hormone-dependent breast cancer: the hope of a new androgen therapy
Androgens – male sex hormones – could potentially be used as a treatment for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, a ...
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Metastatic breast cancer: surgery increases chances of survival
Faced with metastatic breast cancer, surgery, in addition to chemotherapy or radiotherapy, improves post-cancer survival, especially when performed after treatment. ...
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A molecule against breast cancer effective on prostate cancer
In France, more than one male cancer in four concerns the prostate. If mortality has been falling since the 1990s, ...
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Childhood bone cancer: hope for developing gentler treatments
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have just identified a set of genes that promote the spread of bone ...
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Lung cancer: nicotine would promote the development of brain metastases
The nicotine molecule, however non-carcinogenic, would promote the development of cerebral metastases in patients suffering from lung cancer. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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ASCO 2020: update on advances in breast cancer
Biomarkers, immunotherapy, PET Scan… On the occasion of the ASCO international congress, which was held from May 29 to 31, ...
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Metastatic breast cancer: targeted treatments according to tumor mutations
The new treatments used in the management of metastatic breast cancer have brought very significant progress in terms of the ...
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Metastatic prostate cancer: new avenues of treatment
Targeted therapies and anti-cancer immunotherapies, which are not very effective against primary prostate cancers, could perhaps work against bone metastases.the ...
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Pancreatic cancer: how cancer cells change their environment
Researchers have discovered that cancer cells are able to modify their environment to allow the development of metastases and fight ...
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Colorectal cancer: metastases spread before the tumor is detectable
Contrary to popular belief, metastases begin to grow long before the cancerous tumor is clinically detectable.Up to 80% of metastatic ...
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Advanced or metastatic breast cancer: continuous chemotherapy improves results
Continuous chemotherapy treatment would be more effective in patients with advanced breast cancer, compared to chemotherapy in cycles. Explanations. There ...
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Lung cancer: decisive lengthening of survival if targeted therapy is possible
The advent of targeted therapies has completely transformed the prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer with a rearrangement of the ...
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Prostate cancer: a new, more effective and cheaper test to detect it
Men who have recovered from prostate cancer are at risk of developing metastases, but a new test could detect them ...
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Advanced-stage melanoma: immunotherapy first improves surgery
In melanomas at high risk of metastasis, a combination of immunotherapies administered before surgery is clearly more effective. Treatment protocols ...
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Aggressive breast cancer: metastases linked to the circadian rhythm?
© iStockPhotosInvolved in many mechanisms, sleep is essential for good health. And even better, sleeping well could save your life! ...
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Melanoma: combination immunotherapy reduces brain metastases
Two combined treatments, ipilimumab and nivolumab, have positive results in patients with stage 4 melanoma brain metastases, according to one ...
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Cancer: a calculation method to track the spread of metastases
American researchers have developed an algorithm to trace the migration of cancer cells in the body and thus better understand ...
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Cancer: researchers discover 11 genes responsible for 99% of metastases
Canadian researchers have just discovered the existence of 11 genes responsible for the spread of cancer. A major discovery that ...
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Cancer: metastases appear much earlier than you think
American researchers have succeeded in studying the evolution of metastases using a mathematical model. They show that they are formed ...
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Cancer: immunotherapy more effective in men than in women?
According to a new study, the relative survival rate of men treated with immunotherapy for cancer is higher than that ...
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Prostate cancer: a patient calls to sign the petition for the reimbursement of radium 223
Nearly 2000 people have signed the petition proposed by a patient to request reimbursement for a treatment: radium 223 dichloride. ...
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Antibody against bone metastases divides their frequency by 100
A new antibody fights bone metastases which are the major limitation of cancer treatments. An antibody directed against the protein ...
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Bacteria promotes bowel cancer and its development
According to a team of researchers, a bacterium that is found in almost half of all colon cancers is also ...
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